Time Machine: Smartest Application in Mac OS X. What Apple states it: " Time Machine is a backup utility, not an archival utility, it is not intended as offline storage. Time Machine captures the most recent state of your data on your disk. As snapshots age, they are prioritized progressively lower compared to your more recent ones." Using simple words, it can be stated as an application to back up files on your machine on the same or an external hard drive (USB or Firewire ), which later on can be used to retrieve deleted or lost files. When time machine starts it copies each and every file leaving the caches on your machine to the selected drive, which you can call as back up drive. It copies all the files in it original state without compressing it, so that when required it could turn your Mac in its original state. Time Machine keeps backing up files at regular intervals after the first back up that is termed as incremental backup, while doing this 'incremental/foll...
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